GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Dr. Mohamed Abu Salmiya, director of the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, has said that Gaza’s hospitals have lost about 40 percent of their kidney patients due to the shortage of medical supplies.
“There are only three intensive care beds for [kidney] patients in the northern Gaza Strip, in addition to only 20 dialysis machines, despite the return of hundreds of thousands of displaced people from the southern governorates to the north of the Strip since the ceasefire started,” Dr. Abu Salmiya added in a statement on Sunday.
“Many patients in intensive care and premature babies are dying due to the shortage of oxygen cylinders,” Dr. Abu Salmiya pointed out.
He warned of the Israeli persistence in disrupting the humanitarian protocol of the ceasefire agreement, stressing the need to provide Gaza’s hospitals with its needs.
Gaza’s hospitals suffer from a severe shortage of oxygen after the Israeli occupation army destroyed 10 central oxygen stations during its genocidal war.
